Ohio Democratic Party Chairman Chris Redfern was quick to lambast the seven Republicans who voted against the measure, saying not voting for the deal would've sent "our country spiraling into another disastrous recession."

"It's deeply disappointing that even after these Republicans' colleagues in the U.S. Senate worked to hammer out a bipartisan deal to avert a self-inflicted recession, these extremists were so rigid in their ideology that they preferred economic disaster to compromise," he said.

Sens. Rob Portman, R-Ohio and Sherrod Brown, D-Ohio, both voted for the measure in the Senate.